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Our street address:
The Compassionate Friends
NSW Inc.
4th Floor, Room 404
32 York Street,
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
International dialling:
Tel: 61 2 9290 2355
Fax: 61 2 9290 2445
AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF
THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS
NEW SOUTH WALES INC.
The Compassionate Friends New South Wales was founded in August 1979. The name of The Compassionate Friends has been registered under the Associations Incorporation ACT 1984.
The Compassionate Friends is a self-help organisation offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents after the death of their child(ren) and fosters the physical and emotional health of bereaved parents and their surviving child(ren).
The aims of The Compassionate Friends are to:
Offer support and friendship to any sorrowing family,
Listen with understanding,
Provide group meetings,
Give information about the grieving process,
Provide acquaintance with bereaved families whose sorrow has softened and who have found fresh hope and strength for living,
Promote more understanding among professional, medical, paramedical, police, clergy and teaching persons and the community at large of the trauma and special needs of bereaved families following the death of a child,
Establish, promote and assist metropolitan and country Chapters in their efforts to support bereaved families.
Establish and maintain the Bereaved Parent Centre in offering support, understanding, personal contact and referral for all bereaved families.
The Principles of The Compassionate Friends:
TCF offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents
Bereaved parents have learned that the death of their child(ren) has caused pain that can best be understood fully by bereaved parent
They can reach out with love and support, as their grief subsides, to those who still feel alone and abandoned.
TCF believes that bereaved families can help each other,
Bereaved parents understand that they must find their own way through grief
They know that expressing thoughts and feelings are part of the healing process, TCF offers an opportunity for sharing and learning from other bereaved parents.
TCF does not offer professional psychotherapy or counselling.
TCF seeks the cooperation and the support of the professional community but does not depend upon it for supervision or formal guidance.
TCF welcomes the opportunity to share with the professional community information about the needs of bereaved families.
TCF reaches out to all bereaved families irrespective of religion, race, financial status or nationality,
TCF espouses no specific religious or philosophical ideology.
TCF does not participate in legislative or political controversy. (members are free to do so outside of the Organisation).
Members express their individual views on controversial subjects with respect and consideration for those who may disagree with them.
TCF understands that every bereaved family member has individual needs and rights,
TCF does not suggest that there is a correct way to grieve or that their is a preferred solution to the emotional and spiritual dilemmas raised by the death of a child
All members are given the opportunity to speak and be heard. However, no one is compelled to speak.
TCF helps bereaved families primarily through The Bereaved Parent Centre, metropolitan and country chapters and telephone contacts.
Chapters are established to provide sharing groups that create an atmosphere of openness and honesty,
TCF Chapters are established for their members,
What is said at meetings is confidential and what is learnt about members is privileged information.
TCF recommends that attendance at Chapter meetings by the media, by students, or by other observers be permitted only with prior announcement and with the consent of the members.
TCF Chapters are co-ordinated by the state council to extend help to each other and to individual bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents throughout the State.
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TCF acknowledges the obligation of its members to support local State and National goals of the organisation by contributing their time, talent and resources.
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The State Council is to assist in the development of new Chapters to bereaved parents directly where there is no local Chapter to train or assist in the training of members to ensure the aims of TCF are fulfilled.
The state council may establish and appoint Chapters, Sub-Chapters, Representatives and Telephone Contacts throughout the State.
A Chapter so established shall be charged with performing the work and fulfilling the objects of TCF in its area and will consist of at least eight (8) members.
TCF Representatives - Telephone Contacts
Members working on their own, approved by State Council as TCF representatives of Telephone Contacts will be responsible to the State Council.
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